alte
\alt\
The verdict
“alte” is uncommon French (frequency #73,697 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,697
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de halte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alte · alte · French
alte · rank #73,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,697
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allaitent
Nearest frequency peer: allaitent (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « alte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Alexi
Alexi
26,306 corpus weight
- allaitent
allaitent
26,305 corpus weight
- alte
alte
26,304 corpus weight
- alternés
alternés
26,303 corpus weight
- amarillo
amarillo
26,302 corpus weight
- amassées
amassées
26,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \alt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alte is uncommon French at frequency #73,697 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \alt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de halte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alte in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alte, spelled A-L-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de halte.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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